Council to Vote on Proposal for Library

The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote today on a recommendation to create a $1-million trust fund to build a library in Lake View Terrace.

“We’ve talked about this for over 10 years,” said Phyllis Hines, a member of the Lake View Terrace Improvement Assn., who also is on a special advisory committee set up by Councilman Richard Alarcon last year.

The advisory committee was created to recommend how to spend a $5-million trust fund created by the City Council to benefit the Lake View Terrace, Kagel Canyon and Pacoima communities, as compensation for the council’s 1991 decision that allows garbage dumping at the city-owned Lopez Canyon landfill to continue until 1996.

Money from the trust fund has been used to establish a scholarship for Mission College students.

Other projects include buying a headquarters for Jeopardy, an anti-gang program run by the Los Angeles Police Department, and the renovation of the Lake View Terrace Recreation Center.

Members of the community advisory board, which voted for a library trust fund two years ago, do not expect the $1 million to be enough to build a library.

But it will be used as seed money to attract other grants and donations for a facility that board members hope will include high technology computers linking the community with the information superhighway.